I’m incredibly likely to miss the Red Wings-Penguins game tonight (7:30 PM EDT on Bally Sports Detroit Extra and the NHL Network [edit: as well as WWJ Newsradio 950]; I’m DVR’ing the game) because today is “Game Day” at Beaumont.
Aunt Annie is having her cardiac catheterization procedure at 4 PM EDT, and if the doctors don’t find anything, they’re going to discharge her tomorrow…
To nursing home care. Regrettably, she’s far too fragile to be discharged to home care, so she needs some institutional rehabilitation and PT/OT. We’ll be picking a nursing home/rehab facility that’s closer to South Lyon today, regardless of her discharge date.
From there on, we’re got at least another week until she’s strong enough to come home, even with some home care nurses on call.
My little 80-year-old aunt is very disappointed that she “flunked” her discharge-to-PT tests, but she’s damn determined to be able to walk to the restroom and back on her own. While she can only take one step right now, I’m not doubting her ability to regain her capabilities.
Long story long, I’m off the hockey beat for at least one more day.
We absolutely barely made the hotel bill in Traverse City, so I’m broke, and I may have to start some sort of “AA’s 45 minutes away and I need gas money” fundraising drive. I know that sounds somewhat self-serving, but it’s where the financial situation is at–in rather desperate straits.
So we move ahead, one day and one task and one shift at a time, and today is our “game day” here.
As always I said a prayer for both of you. In a home myself for almost two years now so I can understand a bit.